>Reality check, I've been getting about 27GB onto a 20GB/40GB drive.
>This is typical. You should be able to get 17-18GB on the drive on
>average.
Par for the course. We get 33-36 GB on our 25 GB native AIT tapes.
>Warning, my rant follows:
>
>What I don't get is that they have not improved the compression on
>tape drives all that much. I mean, compression programs regularly
>get 4:1 to 24:1 compression depending on the data. Heck, a JPEG
>image is typically 12:1 compression.
JPEG is a lossy compression. I'm sure you don't want to restore files
with some of the data missing.
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